The 14th annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt has begun. For 14 years now This Magazine has surveyed this vast country for the best and brightest in Canadian new fiction and poetry and this year, just to keep things interesting, we’ve added a new category. For the first time, we’ll award a prize for best graphic…
Category: Writing Competitions
Raddall Fiction Prize increased to $20,000
Atlantic Canada’s richest literary prize just got richer. At a ceremony honoring the 20th anniversary of the award this Thursday at White Point Beach Resort, award benefactor Tom Raddall II announced that the $15,000 award would increase to $20,000 beginning next year. The Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize was established by the Writers’ Federation…
Linden MacIntyre, Shandi Mitchell, SS Atlantic big winners at 2010 Atlantic Book Awards
It was standing room only at the Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth, NS Wednesday night as over 200 of the region’s writers, illustrators, book publishers and readers celebrated the 33 nominees and recipients of 13 different literary prizes at the 2010 Atlantic Book Awards. CBC Radio host Costas Halavrezos and Newfoundland playwright, comedian and author…
Enfield & Wizenty Fiction Contest Renewed
Building on the success of its initial contest last year, Enfield & Wizenty is once again offering a $5,000 advance for best novel or short story collection by a Canadian author. Last year’s winner, Michelle Berry, will see her novel This Book Will Not Save Your Life released this September alongside two new titles by contest…
Congratulations to The Malahat Review’s 2010 Novella Prize Winner
Congratulations to The Malahat Review’s 2010 Novella Prize Winner The Malahat Review congratulates Tony Tulathimutte of San Francisco, CA on winning our 2010 Novella Prize! His story, “Brains,” was chosen from 196 entries by our three final judges: Bill Stenson, Bernice Friesen, and Patricia Robertson. Of “Brains,” our judges said: “It was a pleasure to…
23rd Annual Island Literary Awards
23rd Annual Island Literary Awards PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Deadline for Submissions : May 28th 2010 The PEI Writers’ Guild (PEIWG) has decided to go on receiving submissions, longer than originally announced, for the 23rd annual Island Literary Awards (ILAs). The new submission deadline is 4pm on Friday, May 28th, 2010. The PEI Public Library Service…
Prairie Dog Publishing Presents: The Christmas Chaos Writing Contest
For our upcoming anthology, we are looking for your tales of “Christmas gone wrong.” Your stories can be humorous or heart-wrenching, but they must be well-written, and they must be true. Contest deadline: April 30, 2010 For more information: http://www.prairiedogpublishing.ca
The 2011 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest
Quattro Books will publish the two best novella manuscripts (15,000 to 42,000 words) submitted to us by July 1, 2010. Send your manuscript, neatly typed, along with a $15 reader’s fee, to Quattro Books, PO Box 53031 , Royal Orchard Postal Station, 10 Royal Orchard Blvd., Thornhill ON, L3T 3C0. Please include an e-mail address….
Manitoba Book Award shortlist runs long for Turnstone Press
WINNIPEG – Turnstone Press is bristling with pride in the wake of the Manitoba Book Awards shortlist announcement. Five of the independent literary publisher’s eight titles from 2009 were chosen as finalists for eight awards to be given out at the Province’s literary version of the Oscars. This is the most number of titles from the same publisher…
The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest
The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream… Write a poem or short story for a chance to win…
The BEACON AWARD for Social Justice Literature
The BEACON AWARD for Social Justice Literature Non-fiction can move a reader to take action on an issue of social justice through ideas and information. Fiction can use these channels plus feeling and imagination. Fiction can draw readers into a sympathetic connection with someone they would originally have perceived as very different from themselves. It can present struggles and alternative…
The Malahat Review Submissions Wanted
The Malahat Review Far Horizons Award for Poetry Deadline: May 1, 2010 $500 Prize (plus $20/page upon publication) Authors who have not yet had their poetry published in book format (a book of 48 pages or more) can submit up to three poems per entry, max. 60 lines each. Fees: $25 CAD for Canadians $30 USD…
The Writing Pool 